Ceu Podcast

Elképzelhetőnek tartod, hogy az önkormányzat arra kér, tölts le egy applikációt a telefonodra, és szavazz a közösségi költségvetésre? Beleszólhatunk a döntéshozatalba? Az állampolgárok többsége elégedetlen a képviseleti demokrácia intézményeivel. Erre a problémára kinálnak megoldást az ún. demokratikus innovációk, melyek célja a demokratikus kormán…

In this interview Emir Filipovic, Associate Professor of Medieval History at Sarajevo University, discusses his research into conflict, collusion, and diplomacy in 14th century Balkans. This was a period and region of great change, with competing powers, shifting alliances, and much political and military complexity. The Byzantium empire was in slo…

Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.Legtöbbünknek már nincs személyes tapasztalata a második világháborúról, sőt alig találkozhatunk ma már olyannal, akinek van. A második világháború mégsem csak könyvekből és az iskolai tanórákról ismert számunkra, hiszen …

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Tatiana and Honorata from JUSThood turn traditional city planning on its head by sharing their creative neighbourhood planning method. We ponder what women, fish and children have in common, and ask a group of men to step in…

In this interview, Orsolya Lang, the Director of the Aquincum Museum in Budapest, Hungary, talks about her work in the town of Aquincum on the Roman Limes, and its legacy on the early medieval period. Orsolya discusses Aquincum, which at its height had a population of around 60,000, including a legionary fortress, administrative centre and civil to…

Pillanatképek - nyitott akadémia a második világháború történetéről.Az MTA II. világháború története albizottság előadássorozata.https://2vh-albizottsag.hu/https://www.facebook.com/MTAMasodikVilaghaboruTorteneteAlbizottsagOleh Klacsmann Borbála

In this interview, Robert Antonin, Associate Professor of History at Ostrava University in Czech Republic, discusses his research into the importance of rulership rituals in the High Middle Ages, Bohemia. He shows how the visualization of rulership through the public display of ritual built the legitimacy of the ruler, and how the public acceptance…

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Sıla from Roof Coliving in Turkey convinces us that civic engagement, especially from young people, is what puts the 'just' in 'Just Transition'. She also tells us about a quirky project in Maltepe that's poking people to th…

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Filippos from Pervolarides in Thessaloniki shares his experience with creating a social solidarity net through food and beyond. He gives an honest take on the personal strain of community work, tips on how to lessen it, and …

The ‘Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe 800 – 1600’ was conceived in Budapest, Hungary in 2014, outlined in Olomouc, Czechia in 2016 and finally published by Oxford University Press in 2022. In this interview, the joint editors of the book, Nada Zecevic and Daniel Ziemann, discuss the process of creating a Handbook that consists of twenty-f…

Amanda Cote (University of Oregon) discusses how crunch has become deeply embedded in the video game industry, leading developers to distinguist between "good crunch" and "bad crunch."YouTube version:https://youtu.be/DQltuh_EwlwFollow Amanda on social media:https://twitter.com/accotehttp://www.amandaccote.com/Original Study:https://journals.sagepub…

The UrbanCommunity podcast elevates voices from community led initiaitves for sustainable and just cities.In today's episode, Amy from HubRen in London shares her thoughts on the interconectedness of all things, how hope is a verb, and the power of art and culture in climate conversations.Learn about the Hub here: https://www.hubren.org/…

In this interview Mária Vargha shares her new perspective on the Christianization of Central Europe, based on the insights offered by the geospatial analysis of the archeological data and approaches in digital humanities.Oleh CEU Medieval Radio

Ian and Kate are off on new adventures, but the podcast continutes! Sophia Silverton introduces its new focus: sharing the stories of community initiaives for sustainable and just cities.Image by Lucia Di PaolaOleh Sophia Silverton

I n this short conversation Lenka Panušková talks about the illuminations of Passional of the Abbess Kunigunde in the context of female devotional practices of the fourteenth century.Oleh CEU Medieval Radio

In this interview, Michal Machalski talks to Bernhard Palme about the papyri documents from Byzantine EgyptOleh CEU Medieval Radio

Welcome to the first episode of the CEU Press podcast series! To start us off, Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, CEU Press) and Emily Poznanski (Director, CEU Press) sit down with Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor, CEU Review of Books) to talk about the beginnings of the CEU Press, its mission, how it has developed since its foundation and about the P…

In this interview Éloïse Adde, Assistant Professor at Central European University's Medieval Studies Department, speaks on the topic of the medieval nation. Using examples from Luxemburg Bohemia and the duchy of Brabant, she demonstrates the processes that led to the creation of pre-modern political nationhood.…

In this interview Éloïse Adde, Assistant Professor at Central European University's Medieval Studies Department, speaks on the topic of the medieval nation.Oleh CEU Medieval Radio

In this interview, Associate Professor Daniela Rywikova, University of Ostrava, talks about her book ‘Spectrum Mortis, The Image of Death in Late Medieval Bohemian Painting’. She considers how the people of Bohemia in the medieval period thought about death, represented death, prepared for their own death, and how the worlds of the living dead and …

Chris J. Young (University of Toronto) discusses how the Canadian independent video game maker scene has evolved thanks to such robust tools as the Unity Engine, as well as how Unity managed to become a silent giant in the video game industry thanks to its strong grip on the indie scene and mobile platforms.Video version: https://www.youtube.com/wa…

In this interview, Zoë Opačić, Senior Lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, discusses her current research into how royalty, religion and relics impacted town planning and architecture, and thus changed the shape of major cities in central Europe. The interview focusses on Prague, Krakow and…

Jan Švelch (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) discusses how player surveillance and the gathering of player data have become a norm in the gaming industry and how developers and publishers have entered into a seemingly reciprocal relationship with players, who receive limited access to this data through infographics and "fun fact" metri…

In this episode Adrienn Kiss, a CEU Legal Studies Department alumna talks with Serge Sych, Vice President for Enrollment Management, Career Services and Alumni Relations and Pavel Tereshchenko, Department of Public Policy student and Alumni Scholarship recipient, about her involvement with Ukrainian refugees in Hungary as she compiles databases wit…

In this interview, Dr. Fabian Kümmeler talks about his on-going research into the socio-professional community of herders on the island of Korčula in Venetian Dalmatia, in the fifteenth century. Based on largely neglected archival holdings from the Croatian State Archive in Zadar, which include business contracts, records of litigation and dispute …

In this episode Gulnoza Khasanova, a CEU Cultural Heritage Studies Program alumna talks with Serge Sych, Vice President for Enrollment Management, Career Services and Alumni Relations and Oleksandr Vasylenko, Legal Studies Department student and Alumni Scholarship recipient, about her initiative to cover the cost of the vacant dorm rooms at the CEU…

GENS: Behind the Scenes was inaugurated by Sara Anselmo and Lilli Settari, two master’s students at the Gender Studies department of Central European University, in Spring 2022. They were curious about the lives and careers of Gender Studies faculty members they had encountered as teachers, and keen to get to know them beyond the classroom - and at…

MECERN interview with Michaela Antonín MalaníkováMichaela Antonín Malaníková is the Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.In this interview, she discusses the marital disputes which resulted in litigation before ecclesiastical and municipal courts in the Bohemian lands, 1300…

The podcast shares the perspectives of faculty and students of OSUN Collaborative Network Course on Antisemitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender. These termes are used as a lens through which to examine prejudice, discrimination, race and hate in their historical and contemporary manifestations. These questions have often been discussed in a bifurc…

What is the difference between altar and altarpiece? How were the altarpieces produced and used in medieval churches? How did medieval people see and understand them? In this interview, Chris Mielke talks with Emese Sarkadi Nagy, an art historian from the Christian Museum in Esztergom, Hungary, about the manufacturing and symbolism of Transylvanian…

In this episode of Past Perfect, Chris Mielke is joined by Ádám Nádasdy, a professor of English linguistics and a poet who is famous for translation Sheakspear`s plays into Hungarian. The professor starts the conversation with the Anglo-Norman world, the development of English in the Middle Ages, and the interactions between English and French. You…

In this episode, Chris Mielke has an exciting conversation about medieval forests and the woodcutting economy with the researcher Péter Szabó. The doctor explains how to study medieval landscapes, shows the difference between forests and woodlands, and talks about woodcutting's technologies and economic benefits in the Middle Ages and Early Modern …

Why was it important for the regent of the Netherlands to be unmarried? What is the connection between a Hungarian Queen and Luther? Why did Mary of Austria sign herself as Mary of Hungary? And why is it possible to create an exhibition about these queens full of empty glass boxes? In this interview, Chris Mielke speaks with Orsolya Réthelyi, a spe…

What do Faust and John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I's official magician, have in common? How to speak the language of angels and use magic crystals? What did Renaissance occultism look like, and how did it affect the modern understanding of magic? Christopher Melke discusses all these issues with György Szőnyi, a specialist in Renaissance and modern lite…

In this episode, Felicitas Schmieder, a professor of Medieval History in FernUniversität Hagen and visiting professor at CEU, speaks about medieval urbanism, perception, and eschatology. She begins with the research on her hometown, Frankfurt am Main, and the unique features of this royal city. Her focus is the medieval clergy, its role, and its ch…

After the graduation from CEU, doctor Magdolna Szilágyi talks about her dissertation about road systems in Western Hungary during the Arpad period. While the stereotypes say that medieval people lived in isolated societies and traveled a little, the research proved that the long journeys to the pilgrim locations, annual fairs, and other destination…

Interview with Christian Raffensperger, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities, Wittenberg University, USAIn this interview, Professor Christian Raffensperger discusses his current research and forthcoming book Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200. The ‘arc’ refers to a vas…

In this episode, Chris Mielke speaks with Rubina Raja, the professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University in Denmark, about her research of regional identities in the Roman Empire. First, the professor explains how archaeologists can study identities and what “Roman” really means for such studies. Rubina Raja also talks about the functions…

Caren Kulver interviews Maarten Prak, Professor of Social and Economic History at Utrecht University. They discuss his book Citizens without Nations, in which Maarten discusses how urban citizenship functioned in medieval and early modern Europe.Oleh CEU Medieval Radio

This is an interview with Maarten Prak, Professor of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Netherlands, hosted by Karen Culver.They discuss Maarten’s book Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World c. 1000-1789. Maarten discusses how urban citizenship functioned in med…

Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437) was king of Hungary, king of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor at the same time. However, he was popular neither in Germany nor in Hungary or Bohemia, and long-abandoned in historiography. In this interview, Chris Mielke and his guest, Attila Bárány, talk about mysterious king Sigismund and Hungarian diplomacy of h…

In this interview, Dan Knox, (PhD student), talks about his research into coalitions, networks, and conflict around the double papal election in 498 and the subsequent Laurentian Schism. Using social network analysis methodologies, and based on personal letters and other writing of the period, Dan aims to tell the story of the papal election and th…

In this interview, Anna (Ph.D student) talks about her research into the construction and function of late medieval cathedrals in Central Europe. Her research focusses on the eastern end of the cathedral and how the design and use of the space reflected the contemporary society. Anna also discusses how the concepts used in the design of these ancie…

What can the fragments of glass bottles or beakers retell from their past? In this episode, Christopher Mielke speaks with Tanja Tolar about this very particular type of source materials and discovers how much the fragments can say about trade, manufacturing techniques, imagery, diplomacy, and contacts between the Western and Middle East societies …

In this interview, David Rockwell, Ph.D student with the Department of Medieval Studies, discusses his research into the lobbying practices of bankers and other lenders that aimed to influence imperial law-making affecting the economic life of sixth century Byzantium. He looks at the history of economics and corruption of the period from his unique…

In this interview Antonin Kalous talks about his recent book ‘The Legation of Angelo Pecchinoli at the Court of King of Hungary, 1488- 1490’. This wonderful book includes documents and personal letters to Pope Innocent VIII from his nuncio Angelo Pecchinoli, detailing daily life and even personal conversations at the court of King Matthias Corvinus…

Why was Jewish the only non-Christian minority tolerated in Europe? How did the Jewish and Christians share their neighborhood? What was the tendency in attitude to this minority in Medieval Europe? Today, Chris Mielke discusses these and many other questions with Carsten Wilke, primary CEU specialist in Jewish studies. The historian speaks about e…

PhD Student David Rockwell interviews Jonathan Cohen, cellist and conductor; founder of the British early music ensemble Arcangelo. Jonathan is a specialist in early modern music and period instruments, and talks about his challenges and problems.Oleh CEU Medieval Radio

A Military Analysis of the ‘Iron Gate’ Defence against the Ottoman Invasion of Hungary in the 14th century. In this interview, Jason Snider (Ph.D Student) talks about his research into the defence of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Teutonic Knights. He considers the defensive strategy from a military perspective and poses the question of why it faile…